VPRS 17901 Admission and Discharge Register of Patients (Licensed House)

This series comprises the Admission and Discharge Register of Patients for the Sunnyside Licensed House (VA 2860) and the St Helens / Pleasant View Licensed House (VA 2848).From at least 1845 and the proclamation of An Act for the Regulation of the Care and Treatment of Lunatics (8 & 9 Vic c.100), public asylums and licensed houses were required to maintain a Register of Patients. Initially the register maintained by licensed houses was officially known as the Book of Admissions. In some institutions the Register was also known as an Admissions Register or as an Admission and Discharge Register and these terms were sometimes stamped on the volumes.Immediately upon the admission of a person to an asylum, the clerk of the asylum was required to make an entry in the Register of Patients. Details recorded included: patient's name; date of admission; admission number; date of last previous admission; age; marital status; occupation; previous place of abode; religion and the form of mental disorder and state of physical health. Further details were entered in the register on the death, transfer or discharge of a patient. Institutions were also required to maintain a separate Register of Discharges, Removals and Deaths, usually known as a Discharge Register.The format of the Register of Patients which was specified in a schedule to the Lunacy Statute and succeeding legislation, changed little until the proclamation of the Mental Health Act 1959 in 1962. The record then became officially known as the Register of Patients and Discharge Register and included information about the types of admission. The following five types of admission were specified under sections 41 to 49 of the Mental Health Act 1959:Voluntary Boarders (V) were those who entered the hospital at their own request or, if under the age of 16 at the request of a parent or guardian and on the opinion of a medical practitioner.Recommended (R) and Approved (A) Patients. A person could be admitted upon the recommendation set out in a prescribed form, of a medical practitioner who had examined the person. As soon as possible after admission the superintendent of the hospital was required to examine the patient and either approve the recommended admission or discharge the patient.Judicial Admissions (J). Upon information provided on oath before a justice that a mentally ill person was not receiving proper care, or could not support himself/herself or had committed an offence and after examination by two medical practitioners, an order could be made for the person to be admitted to or detained in a mental hospital.Security Patients (S) were those who had been detained in a gaol but were transferred to a mental hospital upon being determined to be mentally ill.The Register of Patients officially superseded the separate Discharge Register, however some institutions continued to maintain a separate record of patient discharges, transfers and deaths.For the admission and discharge register of patients for the period 1953 to 1962, see VPRS 17917 (Volume 2 - first part of volume only)

本数据集系列涵盖桑尼赛德特许收容所（VA 2860）与圣海伦斯/普莱森特维尤特许收容所（VA 2848）的患者入院与出院登记档案。自1845年《精神障碍患者护理与治疗监管法案》（8 & 9 Vic c.100）颁布起，公立精神病院与特许收容所均需建立并留存患者登记档案。早期特许收容所的登记档案官方定名为《入院登记簿》，部分机构也将其称为入院登记册或入院与出院登记册，这类称谓有时会加盖在档案卷宗之上。
患者入院时，收容所文员需即刻在患者登记册中完成登记。记录详情包括：患者姓名、入院日期、入院编号、末次入院日期、年龄、婚姻状况、职业、既往居所、宗教信仰、精神障碍类型与身体健康状况。当患者去世、转院或出院时，需在登记册中补充对应细节。各机构还需另行建立《出院、转院与死亡登记册》，通常简称出院登记册。
《精神疾病法》及其后续立法的附表中规定的患者登记册格式，在1962年《1959年精神卫生法案》颁布前几乎未有改动。此后该档案正式定名为《患者与出院登记册》，并新增入院类型相关信息。根据《1959年精神卫生法案》第41至49条规定，共有以下五类入院情形：
1. 自愿住院者（Voluntary Boarders，缩写V）：指自行申请入院的患者；若患者未满16周岁，则需经父母或监护人同意，并由执业医师出具评估意见。
2. 推荐入院患者（Recommended Patients，缩写R）：患者可凭经执业医师填写的指定格式推荐书办理入院。
3. 核准入院患者（Approved Patients，缩写A）：入院后，医院主管需尽快对患者进行评估，核准推荐入院申请或将患者出院。
4. 司法强制入院患者（Judicial Admissions，缩写J）：若经宣誓向治安法官提交相关证词，证实某精神障碍患者未得到妥善照料、无法自理或已实施犯罪行为，且经两名执业医师评估后，可下达命令将该患者收治或扣留于精神病院。
5. 安保收治患者（Security Patients，缩写S）：指原本被羁押于监狱，经鉴定罹患精神障碍后转至精神病院的患者。
《患者登记册》原本取代了独立的出院登记册，但部分机构仍继续单独留存患者出院、转院与死亡的相关记录。
1953年至1962年期间的患者入院与出院登记档案，请参阅档案编号VPRS 17917（仅第二卷的前半部分）。